source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:03:48 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 978 From: Ben Denckla Matt Nathan wrote: > > I also like sometimes to measure intervals in fractions of an octave, > such as 3/2 ~0.58496 octaves. This helps detwelvulate (thanks Ivor) > the sense that you get from measuring intervals in cents. I think this unit is very important and its use should be promoted. Mark Lindley and Ronald Turner-Smith, in their excellent book "Mathematical Models of Musical Scales: A New Approach" (actually about tunings, not scales, I would say) use the unit "mil" (one thousandth of an octave) extensively. The fact that a mil is 1.2 cents should make the transition from cents to mils usage somewhat easy. Ben Denckla Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:46 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28178; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:46:14 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28198 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA11125; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:44:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:44:15 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu